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I don’t believe the circles are created by UFO’s, if UFO’s are understood as spaceships from some other planet. If UFO’s and crop circles are indeed caused by non-human entities, I think they are more akin to occult phenomena than anything else.

UFOs, terrestrial or alien, are an unassailable answer. If you accept the premise of UFOs at the start then it is easy to accept that they construct CCs over night and all the other mysterious aspects of them. The ability to make a CC is kind of minor compared to the flying craft themselves. Especially if it is thought that they come from light years away. Or from another dimension. Or whatever.

It is too easy of an explanation when you start with an unquestioned premise that is far bigger than what you're trying to explain.

I don't know about occult phenomena being responsible. It takes a shaman or group of shamans a great deal of training, dedication and discipline to accomplish relatively minor feats of mind over matter.

Who would commit so much devotion and discipline to make pictures on the ground? To do that wouldn't exactly be a hoax but it would still be a joke. That would be analogous to spending the time, money and technological talent that NASA does on a space shuttle to create a Saturday morning cartoon.

Belated reply: By occult, I don't mean magicians or sorcerers, but some form of non-human intelligence. That's what I'm inclined to believe that UFO's are. I don't believe they are "space ships."

One theory about crop circles that's intrigued me - the only alternative to the "unexplained" "explanation" - is that they are some kind of military experiment, using some kind of advanced technology beamed down from a satellite or some such thing. To what purpose? To manipulate belief systems. To what purpose? Well, people obsessed with crop circles tend to be radical environmentalists, one-world-ers, and so forth - leftists and internationalists, for whom Al Gore is a sage, not a clown. So if that is what crop circle enthusiasts come to believe, maybe that is what they are intended to believe. And now I'll take off my tinfoil hat and have a glass of wine.

A final comment, which may be partly at odds with my prior sentiments - some of the crop circles such as the E.T. one and the alien one and the encrypted messages seem EXACTLY the sort of thing that smart-assed scientists would come up with to poke fun at the true-believers.